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| Palestinian Threat To Dissolve PA Could Have Serious Repercussions | |||||
| 2014-04-22 | |||||
[Ynet] Should Paleostinian self-rule end, hundreds of Paleostinians would lose their
The Paleostinians are drawing the last card they have to play: Dismantling the Paleostinian Authority and negating all of their accomplishments and all of the obligations they have taken upon themselves by the Oslo Accords. Suicide is on our doorstep. The threat is a last-ditch effort to break the stagnation of peace talks, and force Netanyahu to make decisions that he has refused to accept until today. The Paleostinians remember what Ehud Barak once said about Netanyahu: "He only takes action when he feels a knife pushed up against his throat." If the Paleostinians actualize their threat there will be dramatic consequences. On the Paleostinian side, the PA will collapse and all security administration will disperse, resulting in 40 thousand people losing their paychecks. The IDF will have to find a way to fill the shoes of the PA by creating or acting as a police force, providing education, health, water, and sanitation services to the Paleostinians. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the US who currently support the PA with upwards of $2 billion yearly, will cut donations and Israel will have to make up the difference, but that will only be a fraction of the true costs required.
The economic cost is the easy part. Collapse of the peace talks will likely lead to a new wave of violence led by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which will try to fill the vacuum created by the PA, while Israel will be forced to stand before a new international and legal situation. Every house that will be built in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank will be considered illegal according to the fourth Geneva Conventions. Extensive boycotts against Israel can be expected and every Israeli official, minister or general, serving or retired, would be vulnerable to arrest at every airport in the West. This is an extreme scenario. Several lighter scenarios could come to pass instead. Unfortunately, except for a few statements made by Tzipi Livni, no one in the government has bothered to tell the public what price they are likely to pay if the situation explodes. The results are a suppression of the reality. Netanyahu's coalition is full of these types of suppressions. One of them is Orit Strook, a Knesset member from the right-wing Bayit Yehudi. On her Facebook she happily promotes the destruction of the PA. "It will be much cheaper and much easier for Israel without the PA," she writes. Netanyahu better hope so. (UPDATE: Bayit Yeudai Chairman Bennett has also welcomed the collapse of the PA.) Timing is critical: the central council of the PLO is set to meet in Ramallah next Saturday evening. The PA's potential plan to dissolve is on the discussion's agenda. Three days after the end of the nine month timeframe for peace talks that the Americans appropriated. An Israeli source involved in the talks described Abbas as "desperate" and "determined". A separate source described him as a man less busy with peace talks and more concerned with the legacy he will leave behind. It is not coincidence that in an interview released Saturday by the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, Abbas spoke about being 79-years-old, saying that it was time to pass leadership to Paleostinians younger than himself. Even that was a type of threat. Contrary to the impression given by negotiators, the question of releasing prisoners with Israeli citizenship isn't the only road block currently preventing the extension of the peace talks. There are two much more important Paleostinian demands which, like the prisoners, are unacceptable (for Israel) under any circumstance: A three month freeze on settlement building and a commitment by Israel to begin discussions on final border arraignments. Sources in Israel suggest that Abbas would be willing to live with curbed construction - a freeze on private building, but building permits for public institutions of a certain scale would go through. The Paleostinians are making it difficult to trust this assessment. In any case Netanyahu was only ready to promise a freeze in settlement building. The despair and anger in the Paleostinian leadership stems from the disappointment of the failure in the current round of talks. In a meeting with an Israeli source, one of the heads of a Paleostinian security branch said: "We are tired of being your South Leb Army." He also said that "twenty odd years after the Oslo Accords and we understand now that you never had any intention of abiding by it.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 If they do Israel should put before the UN the proposition of Jordan and Egpyt taking over custodianship and responsibility for the Palestinians as they did pre-1967. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-22 15:32 |
| #5 No more, No more, No more, No more, Hit the road Jack and doncha come back no more. Well woman old woman, Doncha treat me this a way, cuz i'll be back on my feet one day. Who cares if you do, Cause it's understood, You a'int got no money, You just a'int no good. Well, I guess if you say so, "SO", I'll hafta pack my things and go. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-04-22 10:58 |
| #4 No, no - the second line is "and don't you come back." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-04-22 10:16 |
| #3 Sorry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-22 03:02 |
| #2 Hit the road Jack |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-22 02:30 |
| #1 Hit the road Jack |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-22 02:30 |